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Thursday, July 04, 2013

Impure Thoughts

E.S.P. Haynes (1877-1949), The Lawyer: A Conversation Piece. Selected from the Lawyer's Notebooks and Other Writings (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951), p. 283:

Tutor: "My boy, are you troubled with impure thoughts?"
Pupil: "No, sir, I rather like them."

Michael Gilleland at 6:59 AM

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